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Join leading researchers and technologists for three days of active discussion on operating systems, computer archi- tecture, distributed systems, networking, , and computational science. The FAST program features: • 18 technical papers carefully selected from 67 submis- • Dave Belanger, Chief Scientist, AT&T Research; EMC’s sions. Topics range from RAID design to secure wide- David Black, IETF chair for Internet Storage; CMU’s area file sharing. Garth Gibson, founder and CTO of Panasas; Steve • Keynote address by Dr. John Wilkes of HP Labs, HP Kleiman, CTO of Network Appliance; Reagan Moore, Fellow and ACM Fellow with 15 years of research lead- associate director of Data-Intensive Computing at the ership in self-managing large-scale storage. Supercomputer Center; and Tom Ruwart, I/O Performance, Inc.

CONFERENCE ORGANIZERS HOTEL & REGISTRATION Program Chair Hotel Information Jeff Chase, Duke University Hotel Reservation Discount Deadline: March 7, 2003 Program Committee Cathedral Hill Hotel Khalil Amiri, IBM Research 1101 Van Ness Remzi Arpaci-Dusseau, University of Wisconsin, Madison San Francisco, CA 94109 Peter Chen, University of Michigan Local Telephone: 415.776.8200 Peter Corbett, Network Appliance Toll-free: 1.800.622.0855 Mike Franklin, University of , Berkeley Rate: $129 single/double, plus tax Eran Gabber, Lucent Technologies, Bell Labs All requests for reservations received after the deadline Greg Ganger, Carnegie Mellon University will be handled on a space-available basis. Peter Honeyman, CITI, University of Michigan Technical Session Registration Fees Frans Kaashoek, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Online Early Bird Rates (Register online by March 7, 2003) Darrell Long, University of California, Santa Cruz Member: $695 Erik Riedel, Seagate Research Nonmember: $805 Margo Seltzer, Harvard University Student Member: $260 Keith A. Smith, Sun Microsystems Student Nonmember: $300 Chandu Thekkath, Microsoft Research The Nonmember rates include USENIX membership. John Wilkes, Hewlett-Packard Labs $50 will be added to the above rates if registering by Steering Committee fax or mail. Jack Cole, US Army Greg Ganger, Carnegie Mellon University Online Rates After March 7, 2003 Garth Gibson, Panasas Member: $845 Peter Honeyman, CITI, University of Michigan Nonmember: $955 John Howard, Sun Microsystems Student Member: $260 Merritt Jones, MITRE Corporation Student Nonmember: $300 Darrell Long, University of California, Santa Cruz The Nonmember rates include USENIX membership. Jai Menon, IBM Research $50 will be added to the above rates if registering by Margo Seltzer, Harvard University fax or mail. John Wilkes, Hewlett-Packard Labs Register Online: Ellie Young, USENIX http://www.usenix.org/fast03 Sponsored by Questions? The Advanced Computing Systems Association, Telephone: + 1.510.528.8649 In Cooperation with ACM SIGOPS and IEEE TCOS Fax: + 1.510.548.5738 Thanks for Support of Email: [email protected] Student Stipends: http://www.usenix.org/fast03/ See reverse for full program FAST ’03 TECHNICAL SESSIONS MONDAY, MAR. 31 – WEDNESDAY, APR. 2, 2003

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9:00 a.m. – 10:30 a.m. 11:00 a.m. – 12:30 p.m. OPENING REMARKS, AWARDS SHARING BLOCK STORAGE Keynote Address Virtual Storage Devices with Performance Isolation John Wilkes, Hewlett-Packard Labs Christopher R. Lumb, Carnegie Mellon University; Arif A. Merchant, Hewlett-Packard Labs; and Guillermo A. Alvarez, IBM Research 10:30 a.m. – 11:00 a.m. Break Design, Analysis, and Implementation of Virtual IO 11:00 a.m. – 12:30 p.m. Zoran Dimitrijevic, Raju Rangaswami, and Edward Chang, University of California, Santa Barbara INTERNET-SCALE STORAGE Block-Level Security for Network-Attached Disks Pond: The OceanStore Prototype Marcos K. Aguilera, Minwen Ji, Mark Lillibridge, John Sean Rhea, Patrick Eaton, Dennis Geels, Hakim Weatherspoon, Ben MacCormick, and Erwin Oertli, Hewlett-Packard Labs; Dave Andersen, Zhao, and John Kubiatowicz, University of California, Berkeley Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Mike Burrows, Microsoft; Timothy Mann, VMware; and Chandramohan Thekkath, Microsoft Data Staging on Untrusted Surrogates Jason Flinn, Shafeeq Sinnamohideen, Niraj Tolia, and M. 12:30 p.m. – 2:00 p.m. Conference Luncheon Satyanaryanan, Intel Research Pittsburgh Scalable Secure File Sharing on Untrusted Storage 2:00 p.m. – 3:30 p.m. Mahesh Kallahalla, Hewlett-Packard Labs; Erik Riedel, Seagate; Ram NETWORK FILE SYSTEMS Swaminathan, Hewlett-Packard Labs; Qian Wang, Penn State; and Kevin Fu, Massachusetts Institute of Technology The Direct Access File System Matt DeBergalis, Peter Corbett, Steve Kleiman, Arthur Lent, Dave 12:30 p.m. – 2:00 p.m. Lunch (on your own) Noveck, Tom Talpey, and Mark Wittle, Network Appliance 2:00 p.m. – 3:30 p.m. Making the Most Out of Direct-Access Network Attached Storage Kostas Magoutis, Salimah Addetia, Alexandra Fedorova, and Margo FILE STORAGE Seltzer, Harvard University Metadata Efficiency in Versioning File Systems Passive NFS Tracing of an Email and a Research Workload Craig A. N. Soules, Garth R. Goodson, John D. Strunk, and Gregory R. Daniel Ellard, Jonathan Ledlie, Pia Malkani, and Margo Seltzer, Ganger, Carnegie Mellon University Harvard University yFS: A Journaling File System Design for Handling Large Data Sets 3:30 p.m. – 4:00 p.m. Break with Reduced Seeking Zhihui Zhang and Kanad Ghose, State University of New York, 4:00 p.m. – 5:30 p.m. Binghamton WORK-IN-PROGRESS REPORTS Semantically Smart Disk Systems Session Chair: Remzi Arpaci-Dusseau, University of Wisconsin, Muthian Sivathanu, Vijayan Prabhakaran, Florentina I. Popovici, Madison Timothy E. Denehy, Andrea C. Arpaci-Dusseau, and Remzi H. Arpaci-Dusseau, University of Wisconsin, Madison Short, pithy, and fun, Work-in-Progress reports introduce interesting 3:30 p.m. – 4:00 p.m. Break new or ongoing work. If you have work you would like to share or a cool idea that’s not quite ready for publication, send a one- or two- 4:00 p.m. – 5:30 p.m. paragraph summary to [email protected] by March 1, 2003. We are particularly interested in presenting students’ work. A schedule of PANEL : PETABYTES AND BEYOND presentations will be posted at the conference, and the speakers will be Reagan Moore, San Diego Supercomputer Center; Dave Belanger, notified in advance. Work-in-Progress reports are five-minute presenta- AT&T; and Tom Ruwart, I/O Performance Inc. tions; the time limit will be strictly enforced.

TUESDAY, APRIL 1 WEDNESDAY, APRIL 2

9:00 a.m. – 10:30 a.m. 9:00 a.m. – 10:30 a.m. STORAGE SYSTEMS PANEL : ENTERPRISE STORAGE: THE NEXT DECADE Using MEMS-Based Storage in Disk Arrays Garth Gibson, Panasas; Steve Kleiman, Network Appliance; and David Mustafa Uysal and Arif Merchant, Hewlett-Packard Labs; Guillermo A. Black, EMC, and IETF Chair for Internet Storage Alvarez, IBM Research 10:30 a.m. – 11:00 a.m. Break Architecting Storage Systems Using Probe-Based Storage Ivan Dramaliev and Tara Madhyastha, University of California, 11:00 a.m. – 12:30 p.m. Santa Cruz MEASURING THE TECHNOLOGY ARC: A Self-Tuning, Low-Overhead Replacement Cache Modeling Hard-Disk Power Consumption Nimrod Megiddo and Dharmendra S. Modha, IBM Almaden John Zedlewski, Sumeet Sobti, and Nitin Garg, Princeton University; Research Center Arvind Krishnamurthy, Yale University; and Randolph Wang, Princeton University 10:30 a.m. – 11:00 a.m. Break Storage over IP: Does Hardware Support Help? Prasenjit Sarkar, Sandeep Uttamchandani, and Kaladhar Voruganti, IBM More Than an Interface: SCSI vs. ATA Dave Anderson, Jim Dykes, and Erik Riedel, Seagate http://www.usenix.org/fast03/ See reverse for conference information